Overview
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Some of the programmes I've looked at here are dedicated to producing vector-graphics:
- while others go deeper into one application of the basic principles and deal with the yet-more-specialised task of creating fonts
- others handle vectors as part of something else, like page layout
- or animation & multimedia
- others are jacks-of-all-trades, or maybe maids-of-all-work
- while at the base of it all are the companies whose font technology or operative systems determine how fonts and programmes interact with the user
The list isn't intended to be complete, but rather to reflect the experience of one user who is keen to try lots of different approaches, to share and discuss experiences, and to find one which works well for him; these are personal notes about my own subjective experience of using these programmes, and for some of them I never actually met anyone who had used them, so I had no other help than what was intuitive and what was written, and no possibility of discussing the problems or drawbacks I found with another live person.
If you read this and have experienced something differently - and particularly if I've missed something in a programme - I'd love you to
let me know.
I've first compared how the different programmes handle the functions which are most important for me
- tracing
- pen tool
- brush tool
- calligraphy tools
- text-on-a-path
- then there are extra notes on how I have experienced each programme in general.
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